Our holdings include hundreds of glass and film negatives/transparencies that we've scanned ourselves; in addition, many other photos on this site were extracted from reference images (high-resolution tiffs) in the Library of Congress research archive. (To query the database click here.) They are adjusted, restored and reworked by your webmaster in accordance with his aesthetic sensibilities before being downsized and turned into the jpegs you see here. All of these images (including "derivative works") are protected by copyright laws of the United States and other jurisdictions and may not be sold, reproduced or otherwise used for commercial purposes without permission.

The photogapher may not have realized how prescient really this scene was. The 20th century ushered more advances thatn the prvious 19 centuries combined represented by the old and long-establish horse power being overtaken or gained on by the revolutionary horsepower. We have the contrast as well between the building on the left with its very modern appearance imparted by all the glass creeping into the scene dominated by the more traditional factory. Brilliant!

Shorpy.com | History in HD is a vintage photo archive featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1960s. (Available as fine-art prints from the Shorpy Archive.) The site is named after Shorpy Higginbotham, a teenage coal miner who lived 100 years ago.